To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Suffering
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
-Meister Eckhart "Meister Eckhart"
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
-Sherrilyn Kenyon
"Acheron"
I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
-Mother Teresa
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
